Early the next morning, Xie Shence took Wang Jiehua and the old lady to Yangshangou. Towards noon, the group arrived at their destination.

When he came to the Yangshangou Artillery Camp this time, Xie Shence's eyes lit up, and what he saw and heard was refreshing.

Not only are there complete public facilities, but also the planning of each district is very reasonable. Whether it is used at present or expanded in the future, there will be no problem, and this should be the ability of the three jumpers. The living area is strictly separated from the laboratory, and the special test site, training area, etc., are well organized.

In addition to the family guards, under Xie Shence's instruction and the old lady's acquiescence, the three jumpers controlled the strength of the Xie family's private army to the maximum extent, and transferred nearly twenty iron guards to serve as guard officers, which was almost two-thirds of the number of iron guards lurking around the old lady.

There are only so many people in the Xie family, and they account for almost half of them in Yangzhou City.

And the most satisfying thing for Xie Shence is that he has to search his body when he enters and exits, no matter who it is. Of course, Xie Shence Wang Xie Hua and the old lady are excepted.

The old lady's plans for Xie Shence are very novel. Even the barracks would not have such a strict division, and even the military rations were not plastered everywhere with slogans such as "no open defecation" and "no fire candles", and there would be no people with red armbands and short sticks walking around vigilantly.

After Xie Shence's explanation, after a short visit, the old lady understood the role of these slogans and patrol guards, maintaining hygiene, eliminating ←, and √ potential safety hazards. The whole camp is clean and tidy, and it is very refreshing to enter it.

Soon, Tiewei brought Liu Guitian.

Xie Shence looked at the big man behind Liu Guitian, who was holding a few pitch-black balls in his hands. Each one is the size of a human head.

"What's new?" Xie Shence asked with interest.

Liu Guitian was also excited, and said loudly: "Yes, Lord Bao, the kind of thing you said that can explode after being thrown out has been successfully tested." Do you want to check it now? ”

Xie Shence glanced at the old lady, and the old lady nodded.

When he came to the test site, Liu Guitian asked people to put the standard shields used by the general Qin army in the distance, and there was a set of Qin army standard armor behind each shield, so that the group surrounded five layers, leaving only an open space about the size of a table in the middle.

After comparing the distance, Liu Guitian asked one of the guards to pick up a bomb.

"My lord, this new bomb is a mixture of rusty iron and lead, and when it explodes, it can blow up people and animals within a radius of one zhang into a sieve, and even within two zhang will be injured. If we look at the results of the current experiment, there are all waves within three zhang. ”

"Hmm." Then Xie Shence pointed to his ears and said, "What about the voice?" ”

"It's loud!"

Xie Shence nodded, he could see that Liu Guitian had spoken very loudly from the first word to now, and I am afraid that his ears have been damaged a little.

Xie Shence signaled to begin.

More than a dozen soldiers with giant shields surrounded them, protecting the old lady Xie Shence and Wang Jiehua behind, and only showed a pair of eyes to watch.

Then the iron guard brought a few pairs of earplugs made of cotton, and the old lady, Wang Jiehua and Xie Shence plugged their ears respectively, and the iron guard holding the bomb began to ignite the fire. Xie Shence saw the spark, and then counted silently in his heart.

After igniting the fire, the guard tossed his weight and threw it out.

The bomb landed impartially in the open space between the shields.

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, the ground trembled, and a burst of fire suddenly erupted in the middle of the shield in the distance, and a huge cloud of ash rose on the ground, and the surrounding shields flew upside down. Xie Shence was fascinated and watched the whole process carefully.

The old lady's body trembled, and Wang Jiehua hugged Xie Shence tightly all of a sudden.

When the smoke cleared, about half an hour, Xie Shence and others came to the place of the explosion to check.

The five-layer shield and armor were all overturned, among which, as Liu Guitian said, the shield armor within one zhang was basically shattered, and the shield within three zhang had scratches on it.

In the middle, a large pit with a diameter of one foot was blown out, and the pit was charred, and white smoke was faintly rising from the turned dirt.

The old lady stroked his palms and laughed: "It's so powerful!" If I have this divine thunder in Dajin, why worry about the injustice of the world? ”

Xie Shence smiled slightly. But there was some disapproval in my heart.

He wants to engage in **, mainly in case he is not allowed to be used by Emperor Jin for self-protection in the future, but he never thought of contributing to the country to conquer the world.

This is used as a life-saving hole card.

Naturally, these words will not be said to the old lady, and the old lady will not take the initiative to shake out this secret.

Then Xie Shence sent the old lady and Wang Jiehua to rest, and he came to Liu Guitian's laboratory for a visit. After learning about the progress of Liu Guitian's experiment, Xie felt that he could start the next step.

Naturally, with gunpowder, the next step was naturally artillery.

After all, you can't rely on people to throw it by hand on the battlefield. The range of the Great Jin standard bow and arrow is 100 steps, standing on the two-zhang high city wall and throwing it, the distance can reach 150 steps, and the powerful eight-ox crossbow is 200 steps. As for the Qin crossbow, the range of the ordinary standard bow and arrow is one hundred and twenty steps, and the projectile can reach one hundred and eighty steps at the same distance.

The imaginary enemy of this bomb at the time of development was the Qin army, so if you use your hands to complete the attack, it is better to use ballistas and catapults to fire. Otherwise, wait to be shot into a sieve.

But ballistas and catapults are unreliable after all. It can't withstand this kind of damage, and if the launch fails, the people on their own side will have to pay the price with their lives.

However, the words of artillery are difficult.

After all, the quality of today's gunpowder has reached its limit, and there is basically no room for further development. To get the most out of it, artillery is currently the best choice.

So to solve the problem of artillery, the first thing is to solve the smelting.

Seamless steel pipes or something, it's hard to climb to the sky, thank you for not being strong enough to make a machine. Today's smelting technology is not at home, and his subordinates do not mention how to solve the problem of bubbles in copper and iron, even the strength of copper and iron is far from up to standard.

The small blast furnace Xie Shence knew, but he couldn't figure it out, what gravity dust removal or the like was to know a name, and the specific principle was blank. He knew about earthen blast furnaces, but they weren't practical.

So Xie Shence frowned and returned to his residence. Wang Jiehua was very curious why Xie Shence was like this, so she asked, "Xianggong, is there something that hasn't been done well?" ”

Xie Shence sighed, smiled slightly and said, "It's okay, I can solve it." ”

Wang Jiehua didn't say anything anymore, just walked behind Xie Shence, and gently massaged Xie Shence's temples with both hands.

Xie Shence hummed comfortably.

The corners of Wang Jiehua's mouth curled slightly.

The kettle outside the door was popping.

Xiao Yu'er and Xiao Ye'er were busy boiling the water.

"Hey, let's boil another pot, I'll get the stove, and you go fill the water."

"I don't want to irrigate it, it's so heavy, I can't carry it alone."

Xie Shence suddenly jumped up with a spirit, startling Wang Jiehua a lot.

"What's wrong?"

Xie Shence ignored Wang Jiehua, rushed outside with an arrow step, grabbed the two maidservants and asked, "What did you just say?" ”

The two little maidservants were frightened.

"Stove, stove."

"Not this one!"

"Irrigation, irrigation?"

That's it!

Xie felt a light pass through his mind.

water

Hehe.

Xie Shence smiled stupidly.

It made the two little maids even more nervous, and the little fish almost cried.

Because the place where Xie Shence grabbed their clothes was really uncomfortable.

Yes, it's the collar.

It's summer, and Yangshangou is still very hot.

So, the clothes are very thin. Therefore, when Xie Shence almost lifted the two thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls up, they could see their waists as long as they lowered their heads.

Well, that's right, you can really see your waist. After all, not all of them are well developed.

Xie Shence didn't notice this in the slightest.

It wasn't until Wang Jiehua coughed vigorously twice behind him that Xie Shence realized that his actions were very excessive.

Hurriedly let go of his hand, and Xie Shence found that the two maids were already in tears.

Wang Jiehua put Xie Shence aside, and then comforted the two little girls.

Xie Shence, who was pushed aside, felt that he was very hateful, as hateful as the evil uncle who robbed the child of the lollipop.

couldn't wait to think about this, Xie Shence hurriedly went into the room, picked up a pen and paper and made a gesture.

Soon, when Xie Shence went out, Wang Jiehua had already comforted the two little girls.

"There's something I need your help talking about." Xie Shence said.

Wang Jiehua nodded.

"Let's write a letter to Huaiyangdao to see if we can transfer Master Zuo."

Wang Jiehua was puzzled: "Master Zuo? It's to help you fight the army. The one with the knife? Also, your army. The knife was lost in Taihu Lake. But if you need to, why don't you just let him call him and send it over? ”

Xie Shence smacked his lips and said, "It's not this, the dog's legs are easy to use, but the forging is too time-consuming, I need him to build a pipe." ”

"Pipes?"

"Well, the tube, there's a closed tube at one end, and there can't be any gaps in between. Only he can make it. ”

Wang Jiehua frowned in confusion, and then agreed.

Old man Zuo is an extremely important part of the Huaijun system, especially in the supervision of ordnance, although he is now old and no longer strikes iron. But if Xie Shence rashly asks for someone, Wang Ding or Huaijun Supervisor may not release him, but if Wang Jiehua speaks, the chance will be much greater.

What's more, Xie Shence dared to guarantee that his own things would definitely arouse the old man's curiosity to pick up the hammer again.

Then Wang Jiehua pulled Xie Shence into the room and said, "I have something to say to you." ”

"What?" Xie Shence is a little inexplicable.

"Your concubine."

Xie Shence was taken aback.

"I don't take concubines."

Just kidding, this kind of thing, no matter whether Wang Jiehua is joking to test herself or sincere, you must not nod your head.

Although Xie Shence has always longed for a life with a group of wives and concubines.

"I mean it when I say let you take a concubine."

"I'm serious when I say no."

"And what about your maid?"

Xie Shence was startled again.

"Unintentionally, it's just touching the clothes, not so small."

Wang Jiehua's eyes narrowed.

"Unintentional? How long can an unintentional mistake last? Unintentionally wrong them? Where do you want to go! ”

Xie felt as if he was going to be wrong and said something wrong.

"I'm talking about your maid, a colorful dress! Do you think it's Xiao Yu'er and Xiao Ye'er? ”

Xie Shence was already colorless. It's over, I've slept with my colorful clothes for so long, and the east window incident happened.

I haven't done anything yet. Xie Shence thought so in his heart.

No, how did she know?

How did Wang Jiehua know? Caiyi told her, of course.

The matter of taking a concubine was finally resolutely rejected by Xie Shence with tears in his heart. Wang Jiehua saw that Xie Shence insisted, so he was no longer reluctant, but just said that he would talk about it later.

The atmosphere of the husband and wife is so harmonious and joyful.

However, some people do not

In the Jindu, in the Shangshu Mansion, Zheng Keming had already fallen into a coma.

In his hands, he clutched three letters. Although the man was unconscious, his clenched hands were bleeding, and his well-maintained nails sank deep into the flesh of his palms.

Mrs. Zheng Keming cried darkly.

She didn't know that the three letters in her husband's possession contained the news of the deaths of her three sons, or she would have fainted.

After a long time, Zheng Keming woke up. After calmly letting everyone out, Zheng Keming shed faint tears.

"Thank you!"

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